Alumni Yearbook
This page is under construction and currently only represents a limited list of EPS alumni.
Name | Degree | Year | Major |
Current Position![]() |
Thesis Topic |
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Laura MacLean | M.A. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | QuakeFinder Research Intern | |
Marissa Tremblay | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | Purdue University Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Assistant Professor | Reconstructing past Earth and planetary surface temperatures with cosmogenic noble gases |
Octavia Crompton | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Postdoctorial Researcher at UC Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering | Who’s afraid of the Saint Venant Equations? (Everyone, so I replaced it with Machine Learning) |
William Hahm | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Postdoc, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geoscience | Critical Zone Ecohydrology of the Northern California Coast Ranges |
Hyojin Kim | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Post-doctoral researcher; Global Institute for Water Security; Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University | Water chemistry evolution through the critical zone |
Elizabeth Niespolo | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences | Determining Timescales and Paleoenvironments of Quaternary Human Evolution Using Stable and Radiogenic Isotopes |
Stephanie Wuerth | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Pandora, Data Scientist | Development and Applications of a Carbon-Weather Data Assimilation System |
William Hawley | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | NSF Postdoc; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University | The Life and Death of a Tectonic Plate: Imaging the Juan de Fuca Plate with Amphibious Seismic Data |
Jesse Day | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | NextCaller, Principal Data Scientist and Product manager | The Dynamics of Precipitation Variability in the Asian Monsoon |
Heidi Fuqua Haviland | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center planetary scientist | A multi model investigation of the global interior structure of the Moon |
Noah Randolph-Flagg | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center | The role of groundwater in volcanic and fault zone processes |
Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel | Ph.D. | 2011 | Earth and Planetary Science | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Sea Level and Ice Group Scientist | Determining Greenland Ice Sheet sensitivity to regional climate change: one-way coupling of a 3-D thermo-mechanical ice sheet model with a mesoscale climate model |
Eloisa Zepeda-Alarcon | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | Los Alamos National Laboratory, Postdoctorial Research Fellow | Texture Development and Polycrystal Plasticity of Two-Phase Aggregates |
William Cassata | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Research Scientist | Systematic variations in argon diffusion in feldspars: Constraints on diffusion lengthscales, diffusive anisotropy, and non-linear Arrhenius arrays and implications for noble gas thermochronometry |
Andrea Chiang | Ph.D. | 2015 | Earth and Planetary Science | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Postdoctoral Researcher | Investigating Source Processes of Isotropic Events |
Daniela Rosa | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Research Scientist | Multiscale global atmospheric transport and convective precipitation |
Sirine Fakra | Ph.D. | 2015 | Earth and Planetary Science | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Postdoctoral Researcher | |
Jacob Edman | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | KoBold Metals Data Scientist | Convection and Gravity Waves in the Tropical Atmosphere |
Qingkai Kong | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Joint Berkeley Seismology Lab and Berkeley Division of Data Sciences Assistant Data Science Researcher | MyShake – Building a global smartphone seismic network |
Kathryn Fletcher | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | Interim Department Chair of the Department of Elementary Education, Ball State University, Department of Educational Psychology | Application of U-series dating of pedogenic carbonate and 10Be cosmogenic exposure dating to neotectonic and geochronologic problems |
Yder Masson | Ph.D. | 2010 | Earth and Planetary Science | Institut de Physics du Globe de Paris Postdoctoral Fellow | Computing the Seismic Attenuation in Complex Porous Materials |
Pamela Kaercher | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Insight Data Science | Data Science Fellow | Crystallographic preferred orientation and deformation of deep Earth minerals |
Brent Delbridge | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | Harvard University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Postdoctorial Fellow | Constraints on slow slip from landsliding and faulting |
Jacob Seeley | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Harvard University Center for the Environment, Environmental Fellow | Convection, Radiation, and Climate: Fundamental Mechanisms and Impacts of a Changing Atmosphere |
Zhao Zheng | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Halliburton Sr. Microseismic Geophysicist, R&D | Refining Constraints on Seismic Discontinuities and Elastic Structure in the Earth's Upper Mantle |
Kyung-Eun Min | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology Professor | Eddy-covariance observations of the atmosphere-biosphere exchange of nitrogen oxides |
Scott French | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Google Site Reliability Engineer | Global Full-Waveform Tomography Using the Spectral Element Method: New Constraints on the Structure of Earth's Interior |
Christian Huber | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | Georgia Institute of Technology Assistant Professor | The importance of small-scale dynamics on large-scale magmatic processes |
Sarah Godsey | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | Department of Geosciences, Idaho State University | Understanding Water and Solute Fluxes in Diverse Catchments |
Robert Martin-Short | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Data Scientist at App Annie | Seismic investigation of subduction in Cascadia and Alaska and Simulating the ability of MyShake networks to detect and locate earthquakes |